The huge advances of social media sites show a transformation from media monologues to dialogues which will define human communication of the early 21st century. An overwhelming majority of marketers say they are now using some form of social media to market their business. Social media is an almost “must-have” for any small business because [...]
You’ve got a beautiful website and blog and you want people to contact you, either by phone or email. What do you do? Everyone has a contact page on their website. OK, maybe not everyone, but you should have one, really. Here are some really important points to think about when you’re doing your contact [...]
So you’ve got your self-hosted WordPress blog set up, optimized and have already published a few great posts and you want to offer an RSS feed and email subscription to your posts. What is RSS? RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and is a format used to publish frequently updated content from the web on [...]
How long has it been since you first used the internet? How much have your habits of information gathering changed since then? If you’re anything like me a myriad of different interests discovered on the internet crowd your mind as well as the exciting new ways you find out about them. The future is on [...]
I have been asked to help publish a magazine by a hospital radio station. Anyone who has had any sort of stay in a hospital will tell you that hospital radio with it’s music, news and entertainment is a welcome diversion at a difficult time. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital One of the bigger hospitals in [...]
I did this lectern idea for a company that did events where entrepreneurs pitch to investors. People from the UK will be familiar with this notion from the Dragons’ Den TV show. I’ve been a big fan of the show and I’ve always wondered how I would fair pitching a business idea. I would do [...]
There are two sides of a coin when considering how to market your site on the internet. Firstly, concentrate on the site itself: write regularly updated quality content and optimize the site for search engines. Secondly, by concentrating off the site: getting quality sites to link to yours. Introduction As I’ve said before in this [...]
This is the fifth in the series where I explain how an individual or small or medium sized organization can get themselves noticed in the big bad world. Other installments explained how to set up a web site from scratch, how to install WordPress and what to write on your site. Before we commence a [...]
So you’ve got your WordPress blog set up and you are just starting to write – what you do? Words are, in my opinion, the most important thing on a website. This is because the search engine robots that crawl the web every day can pretty much “read” what you’ve written, but they can’t look [...]
How to get clients online and advice on starting up online!
Enter your email to sign up for my newsletter and free How to Market Yourself Online and Starting An Online Business e-books!
Your privacy is respected.
Learn how to develop a successful website that brings customers to your business
Enter your email to sign up for my newsletter and free How to Market Yourself Online and Starting An Online Business e-books!
Your privacy is respected.
How to market yourself #3: How to install a WordPress blog on your site
In the previous post in my How to market yourself series, I described how to set up a website on a host’s server. Here I will tell you how to set up a WordPress blog on that server. Read my introduction to this self-marketing series here. This article is about how to set up WordPress [...]
Tagged With: blogs, cms, comment forms, content management system, hosting service, how to set up a website, self marketing, support documentation